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It’s very difficult for a once-famous actor to disappear. Especially in an era of Peak TV, mass-produced scripted content from everyone from Amazon to Facebook, and tabloids hounding even C-list sitcom actors from yesteryear currently paying the bills by working in supermarkets.

But Brendan Fraser, that handsome prince of rubber-faced Nineties comedy, did indeed vanish – suddenly disappearing into a void usually reserved for the disgraced, the disliked or the plain deceased.

When a removal from the spotlight doesn’t fit into one of those three categories, it’s usually motivated by abuse of power – actions of the same sort of lurking industry ghoul that snuffed out the careers of, say, Mira Sorvino...